Tyra Banks Quotes

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

Everything's not always perfect.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

Everyone thinks footballers have a great life and drive great cars, but sometimes you have to pull the veil away and look behind.

As much as I want to be like, It's just baseball, I'm just another person,' unfortunately it's not that way.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

If you win, everyone asks what's your secret, when most of the time you did exactly the same in the ones you lost.

If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.

I don't want to be an also-ran.